"what are we missing?" Usability's indexical ground

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-85

  Zemel, Alan ^a   Koschmann, Timothy ^b   Lebaron, Curtis ^c   Feltovich, Paul ^d  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION   (United States)

Author keywords

Deictic referential practices; Indexical referential practices; Usability

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

DEICTIC REFERENTIAL PRACTICES; INDEXICAL REFERENTIAL PRACTICES; INSTRUCTIONAL SURGERY; USABILITY;

SURGERY;

EID: 38749090558     PISSN: 09259724     EISSN: 15737551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10606-007-9065-0     Document Type: Article

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